Oregon State receives $5.6M to study protein engineering, a key tool in fighting disease

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University has received a $5.6 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to launch a research center devoted to genetic code expansion, which allows for the creation of novel proteins with disease-fighting potential.

Oregon State researchers create tool to help protect native fish from hybridizing with non-natives

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University researchers have created a tool to assess the risk of hybridization among native and non-native fish, a development that could aid natural resource managers trying to protect threatened or endangered freshwater fish species.

OSU’s STEM Research Center helps launch website aimed at connecting citizens to science

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Oregon State University STEM Research Center has helped launch a national website aimed at connecting the general public with science in interactive ways.

Oregon State researchers explore ways to make hatchery steelhead more like wild fish

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Hatchery-raised steelhead trout have offspring that are good at gaining size under hatchery conditions but don’t survive as well in streams as steelhead whose parents are wild fish, new research by Oregon State University shows. 

Chemical reactions enhance efficiency of key energy storage method, OSU research shows

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Research by the Oregon State University College of Engineering has uncovered a way to improve the efficiency of a type of grid-scale storage crucial for a global transition toward renewable energy.

OSU research finds way to scrub carbon dioxide from factory emissions, make useful products

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Carbon dioxide can be harvested from smokestacks and used to create commercially valuable chemicals thanks to a novel compound developed by a scientific collaboration led by an Oregon State University researcher.

Oregon State researchers develop advanced catalysts for clean hydrogen production

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University research into the design of catalysts has shown that hydrogen can be cleanly produced with much greater efficiency and at a lower cost than is possible with current commercially available catalysts.

OSU research enables a key step toward personalized medicine: modeling biological systems

CORVALIS, Ore. – A new study by the Oregon State University College of Engineering shows that machine learning techniques can offer powerful new tools for advancing personalized medicine, care that optimizes outcomes for individual patients based on unique aspects of their biology and disease features.

Microfluidics show promise as safer, simpler treatment option for severe neonatal jaundice

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Research by the Oregon State University College of Engineering has led to a promising potential therapy for neonatal jaundice that’s more safe, simple and convenient than the blood transfusions currently given to babies suffering from the most dangerous forms of the condition.

OSU research pushes auto industry closer to clean cars powered by direct ethanol fuel cells

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Alternative-energy research at Oregon State University is charting a path toward the mass adoption of clean cars powered by direct-ethanol fuel cells.

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